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Podcast: Holdin’ Court Podcast
Episode: Dave Weiner Talks Signing Brotha Lynch Hung To Strange Music And Issues With Black Market Records
Description: Dave Weiner’s quiet power has helped to form hip-hop history as we know it. He has set the pace forindependent success from behind-the-scenes. The Los Angeles native turned an entry level job in themailroom of Priority Records into an explosion of rap music history. As he grew into West Coast SalesRepresentative, he presented the concept of the distributed label to Priority—signing a label as thecompany would an artist. The distributed label blueprint was the first of its kind with the 1996 signing of Master P’s No Lim...